Faculty

Education: BS in Mathematics from University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana in 1969, MS in Mathematics from University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana in 1971

Rachelle Ankney received a BA in Mathematical Physics from Belmont University and Ph.D. in Mathematics from George Washington University.  Her research interests include using the history of math and service learning to teach all levels of students.

Education: Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics from UIC 68 credit hours toward Ph.D. in Solid State Physics from UIC M.S. in Statistics from NEIU M.S. in Physics from NEIU
Research Interests: Ordinary and Partial Differential Equations, Integral Equations, Numerical Analysis, Mathematical Physics, Plasma Physics, Mathematical Biology, and Statistics

I earned a BS in Mathematics (with physics and Spanish minors) from North Park College and an MS and a PhD in Mathematics from Washington State University. The most fascinating books that I’ve read include:  Awakenings (about people awakening from a long-term catatonic state, it’s more amazing than the movie), The Gulag Archipelago (about human nature revealed by a vile environment), The Number Sense (about humankind’s intrinsic mathematical abilities), and Shattered Sword (about the battle of Midway).

Ed.D. from Western Michigan University Graduate studies in statistics from Northeastern University M.A. from Western Michigan University B.A. in Mathematics with teacher certification from North Park College B.A. certificate in Computer Studies and work in statistics from Northeastern University My favorite travels have been a cruise through the Panama Canal, seeing both a day launch and a night launch of the Space Shuttle, and working at an orphanage in Armenia.